Meta says it will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16, and stop selling Quests and Horizon services to businesses from February 20
Meta continues to trickle out the bad news for VR. … Today, the company announced it's shutting that space down …
Sony names CFO Hiroki Totoki as CEO, succeeding Kenichiro Yoshida, and PlayStation co-CEO Hideaki Nishino as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, from April 1
Hiroki Totoki is now the President and CEO. — Hideaki Nishino CEO of SIE. — Herman Hulst will continue to “lead the development, publishing and business operations of SIE's first party-content.” ...
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on selling the Quest 3 at break-even or a loss, from $300-$500, to grow the ecosystem, missing the shift to TikTok-like feeds, and more
At Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg makes one last case to steer XR before Apple arrives... Wired : Meta Is Still Betting on a VR Revolution That May Never Come Peter Cohen / RCR Wireless News : Meta pit...
Meta VP of Horizon Vivek Sharma is leaving the company after six years; the Horizon team will now directly report to Meta VP of the Metaverse Vishal Shah
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Meta's VP of Horizon, Vivek Sharma, is leaving the company after six years; the Horizon team will report directly to Meta's VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah
- Vivek Sharma has been with Meta for six years and was most recently its VP of Horizon. — Sharma's team will now report directly to Meta's VP of metaverse Vishal Shah.
Meta plans to stop requiring Facebook IDs to log into Quest devices starting in August 2022 and will roll out “Meta accounts” for new and existing Quest users
and that's a win-win for Zuck Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system Nick Statt / Protocol : Why Meta is killing Facebook logins for VR Tech Advisor : B...